"No compatible version of MATLAB was found." with Matlab R2021b

[plashchynski]

Getting an error:

RuntimeError: No compatible version of MATLAB was found. This feature supports MATLAB 9.9 (R2020b) through 9.13 (R2022b), inclusive.

while trying to install matlabengine on Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS inside a Docker container.
The installed MATLAB version is R2021b
The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is properly set to /opt/matlab/bin/glnxa64 while MATLAB is installed to /opt/matlab/.

The full console log: https://gist.github.com/plashchynski/fe3760a0444c1203ac8e92e8048237f8